P commendable was a thriving mining town with coal mines of Lirquén, the peak and the Cerro Verde mine Cosmito. Therefore, it was common to see workers in the coal through the streets equipped with their outfits: black hull, with its electric light and heavy front coveralls. The major miners wore a girdle made of flour bags quintaleras. With this belt around the waist and chest as tight. It was a rudimentary precautionary principle to avoid pain to the kidneys or the spine due to a job that required them to be always stooping or crawling through the narrow scroll underground galleries.
The mischief was not absent in these dark work of the subterra pencona. According to old miners tell Lirquén a common joke was a grab at the rear. In the absence of light, affected could not identify the assailant who was protecting anonymity. The victim uttered a cry or hit a doodle, is clear evidence that had been subjected to a grab, scream which in turn unleashed the collective laughter in the depths. Another
grace in the tasks was a little more bold and was to give a little bump from the bottom up with the palm of the hand on the genitals of the victim. At this size, the coal miners called it "a moose."
operations manager Lirquén mine, as identified who told me this story, was an Englishman Sydney called Raby, known among workers as Mr. Raby. At one time the executive down to the depths of the mine to see the work in front of tillage, where the miners struck with their pikes (iron bars) and with all his forces the walls of coal, and where other shovel loading trucks to carry the ore to the surface. To get there, mister Raby, a tall, bunting, had to move on all fours a long stretch of a narrow gallery followed by a gang of miners. In the dark and prevented from trying to look back suffered the humiliation of "a moose." He screamed and threw a tremendous swearing in English. But, as was the top leader, all who heard it had to contain his laughter.
After the exit of turn, in bars and cantinas of Penco, miners star in this uproarious laughter workshop with impunity the condition of the circumspect Mr. Sydney manager Raby, unusual event that was recorded in the oral culture of ancient Penco miners. The author of the irreverent joke was never identified.
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